From: Me Me <emanuelef@...>
Date: 2008-06-23T23:30:37+09:00
Subject: Timeout when reading from a pipe

Hi,
I would like to launch a process (external executable) and raise an
exception if I cannot read any output from it on the stdout.
Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

def execute_mencoder(command)
  IO.popen(command) do |pipe|
   pipe.each("\r") do |line|
         puts line
   end
  end
  raise MediaFormatException if $?.exitstatus != 0
end
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